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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2016-04-13" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Climate Change</name>
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        <heading>Climate Change</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4363" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2016-04-13">
            <name>Climate Change</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-04-13T14:58:09" />
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          <by role="member" id="4363">The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:58):</by>  Supplementary: does the minister agree with Dr David Suzuki's words at WOMADelaide on both drilling in the Great Australian Bight and, indeed, nuclear waste?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2016-04-13">
            <name>Climate Change</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-04-13T14:58:19" />
        <text id="20160413825a289b44c546da80000158">
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:58):</by>  They can't help themselves, these Greens. They are in bed with the Liberals at a federal level, trading off their principles, as they always do, because they are now just another political party like all the others except for the Labor Party, who stand on our principles every time.</text>
        <text id="20160413825a289b44c546da80000159">Here they are doing deals with the Abbott-Turnbull government. What is their record on climate? Under the Abbott-Turnbull government—the government that the Greens are in bed with now at a federal level—we have moved from fourth to 10<sup>th</sup> in the Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index. Under the Greens-Abbott-Turnbull government, we have moved from fourth to 37<sup>th</sup> in the Global Green Economy Index. We have moved from third to 13<sup>th</sup> on the Yale Environmental Performance Index, labelled by the Liberals as the 'most credible index', with a specific rank of 150<sup>th</sup> in relation to climate change—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20160413825a289b44c546da80000161">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20160413825a289b44c546da80000162">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  That is what the Greens are bringing us to, jumping in bed with the federal Liberal Party, driving down our climate credentials. We won't stand for that; we will continue to lead in this state.</text>
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